Re: [microsound] FIELD

[Glenn Bach <gbach@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would add the "stain" painters Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth
Noland, et al, whose most recognized work involved pouring the paint directly
onto unprimed canvas, so that the painted forms exist within the weave of the
canvas, rather than simply sitting atop the surface.  I know there are several
feminist/post-modernist critical works discussing this change in hierarchy, but
the idea interests me more as a poetic image and metaphor.

Someone mentioned Morton Feldman earlier, specifically the book of his collected
writings, "Give My Regards to Eighth Street."

Also, when I think of field I think of drone (Jeff Greinke, Maryanne Amacher
perhaps), specifically those works that suggest or imply landscape or place, or
some structure that extends beyond the artificial limits of the music's
beginning and end.

Does your residency involve this reference to landscape or place?

G.

> Hello Arden,
>
> I was the culpret that started the feild thread, a book of note would be
> "Painting as Model" by Yve-Alain Bois.
>
> The idea of feild painters is of much interest to me. Someone mentioned
> Pollack not being a field painter, that he was only an action painter, right
> and wrong.